Peter Graves (actor)

The left-handed Graves is married with Joan Endress (since 1950) and has 3 daughters. His brother is the American actor James Arness (Gunsmoke). The Painted Stream, Robin Armstrong, Dent, 1985, ISBN: 0460047027 (forword by Hordern). He is best known as a lead in TV's Mission: Impossible and for his portrayal of Captain Clarence Oveur in Airplane!. In later years, he had a house on Dartmoor, where he enjoyed fly fishing. Peter Graves (born March 18, 1926 as Peter Aurness) is an American actor who made more than 70 screen and TV films and series. On television, he played Tartuffe for the BBC and appeared in several classic drama serials, one of his last performances being in Middlemarch (1994). G. Wodehouse's famous indefatigable butler Jeeves in several series in the 1970s.

White's The Sword in the Stone (1982); and P. H. On radio he played Gandalf in the BBC's radio adaptation of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings (1981); another great wizard, Merlin, in an adaptation of T. In 1937, he made his professional stage début, playing a minor role in Othello, and he appeared in many Shakespearean productions after World War II, taking roles such as Polonius in Hamlet and Malvolio in Twelfth Night.

Pancras People's Theatre before going into the profession. Hordern was born in Berkhamsted, and acted as an amateur with the St. As narrator of FilmFair Production's Paddington Bear, his soothing voice will be familiar to TV audiences everywhere. For much of his career, Hordern was mainly known for comic roles, such as Mr Toad in Toad of Toad Hall on stage, but in his later years, his King Lear was much acclaimed.

Michael Hordern (October 3, 1911-May 2, 1995) was a British actor, knighted in 1983 for his services to the theatre.